This work is part of a long arc of research into and interviews with Tanya Crane’s family members. Crane’s goal is to connect her families’ stories to The Great Migration (the movement of Black Americans from the South across the country in the early 1900s) and the material culture that resulted in Black settlements on the west coast of the United States. Miguel, for whom the work is named, is her uncle who lives in South Central Los Angeles, one of her last living relatives on her father’s side. The outside of the bowl has tick marks that represent time spent in prison and the inside details part of her uncle’s interview, including recollections of their family members and the challenges he faced in life.

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